
Novels Without Food
How did a writer as unconventional as Andrey Platonov manage to write so many irresistibly interesting books?
June 12, 2025 issue
Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones
Nettie Jones’s debut novel, published in 1984 and newly reissued, is still breathtaking and shockingly bawdy.
June 12, 2025 issue
Finding the Story
Running a nonfiction workshop in prison for three months, I saw how writing could let my peers forge a new identity. Then it came to an end.
May 21, 2025
Can the Church Evolve?
The big question for Pope Leo XIV is whether he will complete Pope Francis’s mission to make the Catholic Church less tyrannical.
June 12, 2025 issue
The Conformist
Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, The Director, documents the little compromises that led G. W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.
June 12, 2025 issue
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